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Andrew Nunn Associates

House Histories

We are making slow but exciting progress with our social history project - the 'Bedford Park House Histories'. We have successfully accessed Census records from 1939, 1911 and 1901 for all our participants, giving them an insight into who lived in their homes since they were built. We have also brought together the information from the local history society and library and a group of local historians to add to the information our participants can access.

On Thursday, the BPRA launched their House History project with a packed event at High Road House. This was a great social event for people interested in their house history with lots of helpful information about the project and the house history research process itself.

Nigel Walley outlined how the project would be structured and what the BPRA team would be doing to support the participants.

In this latest video from the wonderful Chiswick Calendar, the project originator Nigel Walley, talks about what he hopes the project will achieve and shows off some of the web and tablet software that the BPRA will be using to bring the project to life.

Bedford Park Resident Francis Oliver Cherry, known as 'Frol', was one of the early participants in our House History project. He contacted the Association having read the article on Bricks & Brickmaking in Bedford Park on our site here. Frol was intrigued because he owns a house in Stamford Brook built originally by Thomas Hussey who ran the brickfields that supplied many of the bricks used in Bedford Park and Stamford Brook.